June, 1922 



Wild Birds as Pest 

 Destroyers 



By J. Howard Wright, 



Yaklnki, Wask'mgto/i 



ipEW PEOPLE consider the value that 

 ■*- bird life has to the orchardist and 

 farmer. Only in recent years have state 

 legislatures and congress realized this and 

 begun making laws for the protection of 

 birds. Campaigns have been put on in our 

 public schools to interest the child in birds. 

 Where once the small boy was accustomed 

 to hunt them with his air-rifle, he is now 

 constructing bird-houses for their comfort. 

 Our wild life is fast to disappear unless 

 stronger measures be taken for its protec- 

 tion. Many sportsmen seem to think all 

 game was created for their pleasure in 

 shooting it. 



One of the most common of our birds 

 is the robin. It is distinctly a companion 

 of man, and wherever his hand has cleared 

 the wilderness the robin has followed. He 

 should be given all the protection possible, 

 on account of his economic value as .1 

 destroyer of injurious insects, in spite of 

 his fondness for small fruits at times. The 

 food of the robin consists mostly of insects 

 and their larva. The insects eaten include 

 grasshoppers, bugs, beetles, weevils, and 

 such larva as wireworms and cutworms. 



The cheery call of the bob-white was 

 one of the first distinctive sounds that 

 many of us knew and loved as children. 

 Perhaps there is no bird to which the 

 American people are more deeply indebted 

 for material benefit. He is a bird of the 

 home, the farm, garden and field; the 

 friend and companion of mankind; a much 

 needed helper and destroyer of insect pests 

 and weeds. He feeds entirely on the 

 ground, except when driven by deep snows 

 to seek berries and seeds from the shrub- 

 bery. 



Through investigation by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture it is found that the 

 bob-white ranks very high as a destroyer 

 of many of the most destructive insect 

 pests. .Among those eaten are the potato 

 beetles, cucumber beetles, wireworms, 

 weevils, grasshoppers, chinch-bugs, squash- 

 bugs and caterpillars. As a destroyer of 

 weeds the bob-white stands pre-eminent. 



Every one knows the meadow lark. The 

 food of the lark is gathered from the 

 ground. Three-fourths of it, taking the 

 whole year together, consists of insects, and 

 the other one-fourth of weed seeds and 

 grain. The grain is waste taken from the 

 field during the winter months. Examin- 

 ation of a large collection of stomachs, and 

 other sources of evidence show the range 

 of insects caught and eaten by this bird. 

 Among the insects found were ground 

 beetles, the justly hated white-grub, 

 weevils caterpillars, cutworms, wireworms, 

 chinch-bugs, grasshoppers and crickets. 



Another one of our common birds is the 

 woodpecker. With the possible exception 



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